A developer with 20 years on the job told me something last week. His old burnout used to make sense. Eight hours of code. Brain fried. Go home. Sleep. Repeat. Predictable. His new burnout is harder to describe. He asks AI to do something. He reads what it produced. Something looks off. He asks again….
Month: May 2026
Is AI Quietly Contracting the World Economy?
Is AI Quietly Contracting the World Economy? A Quebec translator I read about made roughly six figures in 2023. By late 2025 her work requests had dried up. Total earnings for the year barely cleared €8,000. She is forty-four years old and watching her career end through email, while large language models charge a few…
Rails + RubyLLM vs LangChain in 2026: The Honest CTO Comparison
The Email That Started This Post A friend who is a founder sent me a Telegram message last month. “We’re three engineers. We have an AI feature to ship by Q3. Everyone says Python. Should I just give up on Rails?” He had a working Rails 8 app. Auth done. Billing done. Three years of…